ACOMPLIA® (RIMONABANT) RECEIVES MARKETING AUTHORISATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
First-in-class CB1 blocker approved for the treatment of obese patients, or overweight patients with associated risk factors, such as type 2 diabetes or dyslipidaemia
First-in-class CB1 blocker approved for the treatment of obese patients, or overweight patients with associated risk factors, such as type 2 diabetes or dyslipidaemia
Behandling med insulin glargin ger låga blodsockernivåer och färre insulinkänningar med en tredjedel så många injektioner som behandling med insulin lispro. Detta visar Apollo-studien som redovisades på den årliga diabeteskongressen, American Diabetes Associations, ADA, som hölls i Washington D.C. i veckan.
Apollo study shows insulin glargine achieves HbA1c below 7% with less hypoglycemia, 3 times less insulin injections and less self-monitoring than the prandial analog lispro.
Type 2 Diabetes Patients Using a New Insulin Dosing Strategy Achieved a Mean A1C of 6.6% after 24 Weeks of Combination Therapy with Rapid-Acting Apidra® (insulin glulisine [rDNA origin] injection) and 24-hour Lantus® (insulin glargine [rDNA origin] injection).
Paris, France, June 7, 2006 Sanofiaventis announced today key trial results presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Atlanta, Georgia, regarding the use of Taxotere® (docetaxel) regimens in the treatment of non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), head and neck cancer and metastatic and adjuvant breast cancer.
Sanofiaventis announced today key results from three studies evaluating Eloxatin® (oxaliplatin injection) in various gastrointestinal tumor types (colorectal, pancreatic and gastric cancers). These results were presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sanofi-aventis announced today that a meta-analysis performed on seven clinical trials in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer showed that patients receiving Taxotere® (docetaxel) Injection Concentrate had demonstrated overall survival and less febrile neutropenia than those treated with vinca-alkaloid (vinorelbine or vindesine) regimens.
Sanofi-aventis befinner sig i en expansiv fas med förberedelser inför lansering av ny produkt och många spännande studier i pipeline. Detta resulterar i en omfattande rekrytering.
The Combined General Meeting of Shareholders of sanofi-aventis was held May 31, 2006.
- 430 abstracts from studies involving Taxotere® or Eloxatin® accepted at the meetings scientific sessions -
Lyon, France May 11, 2006 A study published online in The Lancet on May 11 demonstrated that multiple dosage formulations of a candidate H5N1 influenza vaccine developed by sanofi pasteur were well-tolerated and generated an immune response, with and without adjuvant. Of the formulations being tested, an alum-adjuvanted 30 microgram (µg) dosage generated the most substantive immune response (
Paris, France, May 9, 2006 - Sanofi-aventis announced today that PLAVIX® (clopidogrel) has been launched in Japan.